Medal of Honor Devs Rename 'Taliban' to 'Opposing Force' in Multiplayer Mode

I'm curious how actual members of the armed forces feel about this whole brouhaha, aside from the top of the chain that made the decision in the first place.

To me it is a exceedingly silly thing to get worked up over, but I am not running around in some hellhole getting shot at by anyone, so wtf do I know? :|

Too much political correctness these days. Why pussyfoot around with this shit?

It's like Fallout 3 when it got censored. I don't see them censoring this shit in the movies, but OMFG CENSOR

A rose by any other name

There are a million reasons they shouldn't have changed this. I just wish the people complaining in the first place weren't so stupid.

I would rename them to Freedom Fighters

Let's put things in perspective. If we had videogames in 1944 would we have wanted a game where you play as the Japanese killing U.S. Marines? No. In wartime I think you need a different sensitivity because of our young soldiers out in the field. Does it bother me if someone plays the Japanese now, 65 years after the conflict? That's different...its truly history now. However, playing as the Taliban is basically playing "G.I. Killer"- and there's no way that's cool. If its fun, if someone needs that particular 'flavor"- I think somethings wrong with them. Freedom of expression is a good thing, but I think a degree of sensitivity to our current reality trumps immature fantasy.

Perhaps the Middle Eastern release copies of the game will have the Americans renamed 'Invaders' so as not to upset the locals.

When will this politically correct horseshit end? If you really want to avoid 'disrespecting' warriors of a current conflict you would avoid making a game about it at all.

Fucking idiots.

Thoughts on this....

To the people saying that having Taliban in the game is equivalent to Nazis. No...there is a difference. Currently U.S. and other nation's military personnel are in the field fighting the Taliban- they are a real and current hostile force. The Nazis are now just a piece of history- not killing Americans as we speak.

Also, on the idea that U.S. forces fighting the Taliban are the "real" terrorists. Do you even remember why U.S. forces deployed to Afghanistan. Do you remember who the Taliban are? Before Sep.11th the Taliban regime in Afghanistan openly hosted Al Qaeda. That's right, that little group that perpetrated the 9-11 attacks. The Taliban allowed Al Qaeda to train in Afghanistan and game them a safe haven from which to perpetrate a myriad of terrorist attacks. How quickly you forget(or perhaps you never learned).

As far as the U.S. has removed a legitimate leader from power(Saddam Hussein of Iraq). WHAT? Since when is a totalitarian ruler, who gains office only by outlawing Opposition parties except for his Baath movement to be considered legitimate? So now we consider dictators who torture athlees, give acid baths to critics and genocidally wipes out villages a "legitimate" leader. Please, if that is a "legitimate" leader- define an illegitimate one.

If you all are going to post Anti-American garbage, at least have some facts in place.

I applaud them for changing the Taliban label. Maybe years from now, when young Americans aren't being ambushed, captured and tortured by these scum will they be a part of history, and be a faction in a game. For now, anyone who seeks to assume their persona is sick- and any game company immature to put that mode in their game deserves every bit of public outcry.

Medal of Honor:
Opposing Force > Taliban looking guys


Call of duty 4/6:
OpFor > Arabic Army looking guys

Same Shit Different Name

I don't see how changing the label of the "bad guys" is going to squelch the controversy, the game is set in Afghanistan and you get to shoot at soldiers that look like American troops.

The raw nerve seems to be due to the fact that it's a current war where American soldiers are losing their lives and to people who have loved ones dieing over there they see this game as trivializing their sacrifice and generally exploitative.

This is insignificant. Really. I used to play in 6-8 hour tournies with vets and national gaurdsmen in Armed Assault; I was part of the Russian/Resistance team. It was highly organized, efficient, and no body CARED what the teams were called. If anything, the vets I was playing with had a good time pretending to be the idiots in an unarmored pickup with a .50 on the top.

So if this is anything but a pussy-footed PR scheme or a paper pusher at the heart of it, I'd be damn well surprised.

it'd be better if the guns were gone too, maybe talk it out?

If all they're doing is changing a text field, how is that going to keep anyone's feelings from being hurt?

The rest of the game is still blood-soaked violence. Change the bullets, blood, explosions, and weapons to more family-friendly things.

The only thing legal here is the name Taliban - The wars for sure not !

Eh. As an Army veteran, I can tell you that AAFES is generally considered bottom-rung shopping in any regard. For a long time they even talked about ditching Playboy.

Even if nothing had changed in regards to the name, PLENTY of active duty soldiers would have bought the game. I guarantee that right now, most are groaning over it anyway. Some tightass republitard policy maker in AAFES created this stink, that's all.

As this is a GAME I do not care what they call the enemies, on my behalf they could also use the Papal Guard or some Maori Tribe name. The change itself is minor, the reasoning behind it is imo doubtful.

The ongoing war between coalition troops and enemy forces is being carried out on the backs of civilian casualties (Afghanistan 8,813 / Iraq 864,531). Basically their countries got bombed to the stone age twice now.

God this is just the biggest, dumbest, blow-out-of-proportion non-issue I've seen since the stupid Hot Coffee debacle.

protest and controversy from who exactly? I have heard zero protest over this whatsoever.

who cares its like calling a porsche a comet in gta

have some backbone, guys!

This is a crock of shit. Should of kept it "as is". Guess they want to sell. Whatever man.

PC BS cave fail.

the terrorists have won

Lame.

fucking pussies. I guess now we should go back and change previous games to remove "Nazis",etc

I guess those annoying soccer mom's are pretty persistant!

well, its better to cave here than on something game-play wise.

perhaps it is too early after-all

ha they caved.